Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe? Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe is an ESFP personality type in MBTI, 7w8 - - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.
Se dom Particularly at the beginning of the novel, Rilla is concerned about enjoying life to its fullest: “The only exciting thing that has happened … was Mrs. Mead fainting in Church … I wish something dramatic would happen,” she complains. Later, she adds, “Taste life! I want to eat it … I want everything … I’m going to … fill [these years] … with fun.” At this point in the novel, where her Se is at its most dominant and her Ni its most inferior, her life mission she pretty much summarizes as, “I’m willing to be a dunce if I can be a pretty, popular, delightful one. I have no talent at all, and you can’t imagine how comfortable it is.” She is primarily concerned with what is going on around her. When Gertrude Oliver says she hopes war will be averted, Rilla replies, “It will be dreadful if it isn’t, I suppose. But it won’t matter much to us, will it? Miss Oliver, shall I wear my white dress tonight or my green one?” Fi aux Rilla highly values her honor and her principles: “How I hate that green velvet hat! … But I vowed to wear it and wear it I will.” She often has high ideals: “She was disappointed somehow—the whole affair had been so ludicruous, and Miranda and Joe so lachrymose and comonplace.” Even when she is not at fault, she often feels sorry for pain that she has caused: “I never encouraged Fred to think aout him. Yet feel remorseful I did—and do.” Even when she has to swallow pride, such as when she apologizes to Irene, she does it because her principles are telling her that she must sacrifice for the greater good. Te tert Rilla develops her Te tert during the war years: “Here was Rilla … organizing a Junior Red Cross in her thoughts as she hemmed; moreover, she was enjoying it—the organizing that is, not the hemming. It was interesting and Rilla discovered a certain aptitude in herself that surprised her.” It is later added that she is known as “The independent Miss Blythe, whom a certain clique of Junior Red Cross girs accused of domineering and ‘bossy’” and this reputation is widespread among the Junior Red Cross, although some, such as Betty Mead, interpret it as enthusiasm, and others, such as Irene Howard, consider it a fondness for telling people what to do. Rilla’s Te is also evidened when she seizes upon an oppurtunity and gets Joe and Miranda married in less than forty-eight hours. Ni inf As with her Te, Rilla really develops her Ni during the war: “Life was too big to leave room for pettiness. She had a pact to keep and a work to do” and even after the war’s end, Rilla maintains this outlook. Before, her life mission was to have fun; now, “with a whole new world waiting to be built, a girl must do something.”
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